Bug 267686

Summary:	app-portage/layman please document "nocheck : yes" better
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Quaeghebeur <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Sebastian Pipping <sping>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Flags:	sping: Bugday+
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Quaeghebeur 2009-04-27 19:48:49 UTC

Layman doesn't show overlay types when appropriate version-control system is not installed.

I was looking for the haskell overlay, but it seems it only appears when darcs is installed. All overlays should ideally be shown, and a pointer given when trying to add an overlay that requires an uninstalled version control system.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-27 22:10:07 UTC

Please post your "emerge --info" and tell which layman-version you have tried.

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-28 21:24:08 UTC

Heh, now I know why I wasn't able to reproduce this problem. It's actually no bug but a "hidden" feature :)

Try to set

  nocheck  : yes

in your layman.cfg and try again :)

Comment 3 Erik Quaeghebeur 2009-04-28 21:52:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Heh, now I know why I wasn't able to reproduce this problem. It's actually no
> bug but a "hidden" feature :)
> 
> Try to set
> 
>   nocheck  : yes
> 
> in your layman.cfg and try again :)

Indeed, that does the trick. Documenting this in the cfg file would be a good idea; perhaps changing the default as well.

Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2010-11-07 00:01:40 UTC

Both the man page and the comments in layman.cfg have been extended to address this issue.  The next release of layman will feature these changes.

http://layman.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=layman/layman;a=commitdiff;h=46fb83877a68c5ddc1841e93695248772c500168

Closing, please re-open as necessary.